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15/02/2013

Start the weekend here on the Best Time of the Day Show. Hilarious conversation and brilliant music to entertain you through the small hours. Includes Album and Record of the Week.

It's the best way to start your weekend by tuning in to the Best Time of the Day Show with Alex. Every Friday is a feelgood Friday which means even more great tunes and inspired daftness to keep you happy through the night.

There is a final track from the Album of the Week, another spin of Record of the Week, more unexpected song selections from Lester's and the Listener's Libraries and Pause for Thought.

2 hours, 57 minutes

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Fri 15 Feb 2013 02:00
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • HOUR 1

    • Odyssey

      Inside Out

      • Happy Together.
      • Big Break Records.
      • 008.

  • The Divine Comedy

    National Express

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Train

    Mermaid

    • California 37.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Talking Heads

    Road To Nowhere

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Alesha Dixon

    The Boy Does Nothing

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum.
    • 1.

  • Tunde Baiyewu

    Move

    • (CD Single).
    • Waking Dreams.
    • 1.

  • Gene Pitney

    Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa

    • The Love Songs Of Burt Bacharach.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Shalamar

    There It Is

    • Friends - Deluxe Edition.
    • Big Break Records.
    • 6.

  • RECORD OF THE WEEK from the forthcoming CD, "WHAT ABOUT NOW" (Mercury)

    • Bon Jovi

      Because We Can

      • (CD Single).
      • Mercury.
      • 1.

  • Buddy Holly

    It Doesn't Matter Anymore

    • Very Best Of Buddy Holly & The Cricke.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "ADAM GREEN & BINKI SHAPIRO" (Decca) Out Now

    • Adam Green & Binki Shapiro

      Pity Love

      • Adam Green & Binki Shapiro.
      • Decca.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Wow

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • Jim Croce

    I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.

  • Alicia Keys

    Brand New Me

    • Girl On Fire.
    • RCA.

  • HOUR 2

    • Fleetwood Mac

      Big Love

      • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
      • Warner Bros.
      • 005.

  • Boz Scaggs

    Lido Shuffle

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Lawson

    Learn To Love Again

    • (CD Single).
    • Global Talent Records.

  • Dusty Springfield

    Little By Little

    • Dusty- The Silver Collection.
    • Philips.

  • Don Henley

    The Boys Of Summer

    • The Very Best Of.
    • MCA.

  • Adele

    Skyfall

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.

  • Paul Carrack

    Misery (Live)

  • Cherrelle

    Saturday Love (feat. Alexander O鈥橬eal)

    • Nite Flite 2 (Various Artists).
    • CBS.

  • Milo Greene

    1957

    • Milo Greene.
    • Atlantic.

  • LISTENER'S LIBRARY from the CD "NEXT" (Vertigo) suggested by Barry Groombridge in Birmingham

    • The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

      Faith Healer

      • Next.
      • Vertigo.

  • Josephine

    Portrait

    • (CD Single).
    • Ruby Works.

  • The Byrds

    Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season)

    • Turn! Turn! Turn!.
    • Columbia.

  • HOUR 3

    • Manic Street Preachers

      A Design For Life

      • Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
      • Columbia.
      • 16.

  • Elvis Presley

    Suspicious Minds

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Andy Grammer

    Keep Your Head Up

    • Andy Grammer.
    • S-Curve.
    • 1.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Rehab

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • David Bowie

    Young Americans

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Bastille

    Pompeii

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • Yvonne Elliman

    If I Can't Have You

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.

  • ALBUM OF THE WEEK from the forthcoming CD, "FIRE IT UP" (Sony) out 18th February

    • Joe Cocker

      Weight of the World

      • Fire It Up.
      • Columbia.
      • 011.

  • UB40

    Rat In Mi Kitchen

    • The Very Best Of UB40 1980-2000.
    • Virgin.

  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    Silver

    • Korova.

  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD Single (Edsel Records) Out 11th March

    • Deacon Blue

      Turn

      • CD Single.
      • Edsel Records.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    I Get Weak

    • Belinda Carlisle - Heaven On Earth.
    • Virgin.

  • Pinkees

    Danger Games

    • More Greatest Hits Of The '80s CD6.
    • 10.

  • Ramp Up The Camp

    • Petula Clark

      Downtown '88

      • CD Single.
      • PYT.

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 Feb 2013 02:00
    大象传媒 Radio 2

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